Sir Thomas Knyvet, of Ashwellthorpe, Norfolk and Stradbroke, Suffolk, was an English politician.
Occupation
politician
Position held
Member of Parliament in the Parliament of England, Member of the 1593 Parliament, Member of the 1601 Parliament
Citizenship
Kingdom of England
Born
1501
Died
September 1605
Overview
Sir Thomas Knyvet (died 1605), of Ashwellthorpe, Norfolk and Stradbroke, Suffolk, was an English politician.
He was the eldest son of Sir Thomas Knyvet of Ashwellthorpe, de jure 4th Baron Berners, by his wife by Muriel (d.1616), daughter of Sir Thomas Parry, was educated at Queens' College, Cambridge (1584) and studied law at the Middle Temple (1591). He was knighted in 1603.
He was appointed Purveyor of the Tower Mint in 1600. He was elected a Member (MP) of the Parliament of England for Aldeburgh in 1593 and Thetford in 1601.
On his death he was buried at Feltwell, Norfolk. He had married Elizabeth, the daughter and co-heiress of Nathaniel Bacon of Stiffkey, Norfolk, with whom he had 2 sons and a daughter:
